Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…

The third is a miraculous fast, when any one shall fast many days, and that beyond the course of nature:¹ thus Moses fasted forty days and forty nights in the mountain; and so fasted Elijah. Now there is no man able to fast so long by the course of nature. Indeed Paul did fast three days after his conversion; and those which were with Paul in the ship in that dangerous voyage, Act. 27. 33. are said to have fasted fourteen days, which though some think is not meant of abstaining from all sustenance, but that they did eat very little; yet the words are plain, that they did eat nothing for the space of fourteen days. And though it be true that Physicians affirm, that a man may live seventeen days without meat, yet he cannot endure longer, as twenty or thirty days. Now our Saviour Christ fasted forty days, and forty nights, and for all this his complexion was not changed, nor the strength of his body weakened; nay he was not hungry till the end: though men cannot fast a short time, but it will weaken them and make them hungry, which doth prove this fast of Christ was miraculous.

The third is a miraculous fast, when any one shall fast many dayes, and that beyond the course of nature:¹ thus Moses fasted fortie daies and fortie nights in the mountaine; and so fasted Elias. Now there is no man able to fast so long by the course of nature. Indeed Paul did fast three dayes after his conuersion; and those which were with Paule in the ship in that dangerous voyage, Act. 27. 33. are said to haue fasted foureteene dayes, which though some thinke is not meant of abstaining from all sustenance, but that they did eate very litle; yet the words are plaine, that they did eate nothing for the space of foureteene dayes. And though it be true that Phisitions affirme, that a man may liue seuenteene dayes without meate, yet he cannot endure longer, as twentie or thirtie dayes. Now our Sauiour Christ fasted fortie dayes, and fortie nights, and for all this his complexion was not changed, nor the strength of his bodie weakened; nay he was not hungrie till the end: though men cannot fast a short time, but it wil weaken them and make them hungry, which doth proue this fast of Christ was miraculous.